List of Queen's University people
The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Notable Queen's alumni
Academic leaders
- John Hall Archer – first President of the University of Regina
- Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow
- David Card – economist, winner of John Bates Clark Medal
- George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian
- William Thomson Newnham – first President of Seneca College, 1967–1984
- Frits Pannekoek – president of Athabasca University
- Shirley M. Tilghman – president of Princeton University, member of the Board of Directors of Google
- Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College
- David Siderovski – E.J. Van Liere Professor and Chair of Physiology & Pharmacology at West Virginia University
- Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America.
- Vijay Bhargava – researcher, co-author/co-editor of Digital Communications by Satellite,Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications,Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications,Communications, Information and Network Security and Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks.
Actors, film, and media
- Scott Anderson – CanWest MediaWorks Senior Vice-President, content; former Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Citizen
- Dean Armstrong – actor
- Ashleigh Banfield – CNN news anchor
- Rachel Blanchard – actress
- Kristian Bruun – actor
- Nicholas Campbell – actor
- Tom Cavanagh – actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
- Wendy Crewson – actress
- Brendan Connor – television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
- Chris Cuthbert – TSN sportscaster
- Lisa Eichhorn – actress
- Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
- Lorne Greene – actor
- Amy Lalonde – actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses
- Anna Olson – chef and television presenter
- Italia Ricci – actress
- Michelle MacLaren – TV series director
- Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster
- Ted Simonett – actor
- Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster
- John Stackhouse – former Editor, The Globe and Mail
- Katie Uhlmann – actress and producer
- Ali Velshi – former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
- Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist
- Gema Zamprogna – actor
- Linda Liao – singer/actress
- Sarita Choudhury – actress
- Rachel Skarsten – actress
- Julie Stewart-Binks – sports broadcaster, ESPN
- Vanessa Morgan – actress
- Ashleigh Rains – actress and producer
- Evanka Osmak – SportsNet broadcaster
Business people
- Alfred Bader – founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle
- Geoffrey Ballard – founder of Ballard Power Systems
- Robert Buchan – founder and former president and CEO of Kinross Gold
- Derek Burney – former president and CEO of Bell Canada, current member of the board of directors of CanWest Global Communications, Quebecor World Inc. and Shell Canada
- Donald J. Carty – former chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines
- Gururaj Deshpande – founder of Sycamore Networks
- David A. Dodge – former governor of the Bank of Canada, and Chancellor of Queen's, effective July 1, 2008
- Don Drummond – former senior vice-president and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy
- Mel Goodes – former chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
- Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
- F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
- Leonard Lee – founder of Lee Valley Tools
- Michael MacMillan – chairman and co-founder of Alliance Atlantis
- Earle McLaughlin – former president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Seaton McLean – co-founder of Atlantis Films
- Stephen A. Miles – vice chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, author, and consultant to CEOs and corporate boards of directors
- Alexander C. Monteith – senior vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
- Nik Nanos – founder, Nanos Research
- Gord Nixon – president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Douglas Peters – banker, economist and politician
- Stephen Poloz – Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Stephen Quinn – senior vice president, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas
- David Radler – former President of Ravelston Corporation, cooperating with the prosecution in the Conrad Black racketeering case
- Michele Romanow – cast member on Dragons' Den, co-founder of Clearbanc
- Michael Serbinis – president and CEO of Kobo Inc.
- Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi
- Mark Wiseman – president and CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Literature and the arts
- Jill Barber – singer-songwriter
- Matthew Barber – singer-songwriter
- Janet Cardiff – artist
- George Elliott Clarke – writer and academic
- Jim Cuddy – lead singer of Blue Rodeo
- Kalli Dakos – children's poet and teacher
- Robertson Davies, CC – author and playwright
- Gord Downie – lead singer of band The Tragically Hip
- Priscilla Galloway – author
- Sarah Harmer – singer-songwriter
- Frank Ll. Harrison – musicologist
- Steven Heighton – author
- Elena Juatco – singer and Canadian Idol season 2 top 10 contestant
- Jay Malinowski – vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Paul Nicholas Mason – author
- Michael Ondaatje – author
- Neil Pasricha – speaker, author and writer of 1000 Awesome Things
- Joseph Petric – musician
- Ciara Phillips – artist
- Maynard Plant – vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Monkey Majik
- Jean Mills - children's author
- Alexander Muir – composer of The Maple Leaf Forever
- Eon Sinclair – bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Gord Sinclair – bassist of The Tragically Hip
- Russell Smith – author and The Globe and Mail columnist
- Moez Surani – author
- Timothy Taylor – author
- Judith Thompson – playwright
- Chris Turner – author
Military
- Mark Norman – Vice-Admiral, Commander of RCN
- John Weir Foote – awarded the Victoria Cross for service during the Dieppe Raid in World War II
- Ken Watkin – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
Miscellaneous
- Jock Climie – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
- Ferg Devins – Past President Queen's Alumni Association, former Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Molson Coors Canada, Volunteer Chair of Bladder Cancer Canada
- J. Douglas Cunningham – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julie Dickson – civil servant
- David A. Dodge – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University
- Virginia Douglas – past president of the Canadian Psychological Association
- Johnny Evans – quarterback, two time Grey Cup champion
- Andrew J. Feustel – geophysicist and NASA astronaut
- barbara findlay – lawyer and LGBT rights activist
- Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of Concordia University
- Karla Homolka – convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars
- Andrew Kalotay – mathematician, Wall Street financier and chess master
- Martin Kreuzer – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
- Craig MacTavish – former NHL player, head coach, and hockey operations executive
- Kim Phuc – notable through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
- Jack Pickup – physician, the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia"
- Mike Schad – former NFL player
- David Smart – Canadian champion basketball coach
- Prince Takamado of Japan
- Ali Velshi – CNN business analyst
- Jim Young – 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL
Political leaders
- William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
- Isabel Bassett – former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister
- John Baird – former Minister of the Environment and former Foreign Affairs Minister
- Michael Breaugh – former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament
- Derek Burney – former Canadian ambassador to the Korea, Japan, and the United States
- Diana Buttu – Palestinian legal advisor
- Sean Conway – director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
- Thomas Cromwell – Supreme Court justice
- John Crosbie – former Minister of Finance
- Paul Dewar – educator, aid worker and former Member of Parliament
- David Emerson – Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
- John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
- Sir Kenneth O. Hall – Governor General of Jamaica
- James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- Yolande James – lawyer and politician, Quebec's first black cabinet minister
- Pauline Jewett – university administrator and federal Member of Parliament
- David Lloyd Johnston – president of the University of Waterloo, Principal of McGill University, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and the 28th Governor General of Canada.
- Donald C. MacDonald – former Ontario MPP and leader of the Ontario CCF/NDP
- Nicolas Marceau – scholar and politician, member of Quebec National Assembly and current Quebec Finance minister
- John Matheson – "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton
- Frank McKenna – former Canadian ambassador to the United States and former Premier of New Brunswick
- Peter Milliken – Speaker of the House of Commons
- Tim Murphy – chief of staff of the Canadian Prime Minister's Office under Paul Martin's government
- Robert Fowler –
- Robert Nicholson – Minister of National Defence of Canada
- Alison Redford – 14th premier of Alberta
- George Spotton – member of the House of Commons
- Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC
- Ross Thatcher – 9th Premier of Saskatchewan
- Kathleen Wynne – 25th Premier of Ontario
- Rathika Sitsabaiesan - Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River
Scientists
- Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
- Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
- Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
- Bill Buxton B.Mus. – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
- Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer
- James Edwin Hawley – Head of Geological Sciences Department, Hawleyite is named after him
- Kenneth E. Iverson – inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
- Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc. – geochronologist and a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum.
- Margaret McKellar M.D., medical missionary
- J. F. A. McManus M.D. – pathologist
- Derek Muller – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium
- Anthony J. Naldrett – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
- Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
- Ian Rae B.Sc. – co-developer of CorelDraw software
- Jane Stewart – neuroscientist
- Carolyn Relf – geologist
- Harold Horton Sheldon – physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author
- Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and pioneer in structural fire engineering
- Adolfo J. de Bold - O.C. Ph.D. - Emeritus Professor at University of Ottawa discovered heart hormones
Sports
- Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
- Morris Mott – NHL and Canadian National Team hockey player
- George Richardson – Hockey Hall of Fame member, died in World War I
- Carl Voss – NHL player and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
Notable faculty and affiliates
- Donald Akenson – History
- Ralph Allen – Art
- W. B. Anderson - classics and Latin
- István Anhalt – Music
- Robin Boadway – Economics
- Caroline Baillie – Engineering
- John W. Berry – Psychology
- Janine Brodie – Political science
- Rosa Bruno-Jofré – History
- John Burge – Music,
- Meredith Chivers – Psychology
- James Cordy – Computing
- Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy studies
- Wendy Craig - Psychology
- Anne Croy – Canada Research Chair, Biomedical and molecular sciences
- Lola Cuddy – Psychology
- Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
- Vibert Douglas – Astrophysics
- Jacalyn Duffin – Medical history
- Gabor Fichtinger - Computing
- Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry
- Barry Frost – Psychology
- J. A. W. Gunn – Politics
- Tom Kent – Economics
- Audrey Kobayashi – Geography
- Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
- Susan Lederman – Psychology
- William Lederman – Law
- William C. Leggett – Biology and former Principal of Queen's University
- A. H. Lightstone – Mathematics
- James G. MacKinnon – Economics
- Art McDonald – Physics
- John McGarry – Politics
- Katherine McKittrick – Gender studies
- Marjan Mozetich – Music
- M. Ram Murty – Mathematics
- Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
- Vernon Quinsey – Psychology
- Kim Renders – Theatre, Gender studies
- Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics
- Kai Salomaa – Computer science
- Bernice Weldon Sargent – Physics
- Sanjay Sharma – Medicine
- Elizabeth Smith Shortt – Medicine
- Ana Siljak – History
- John P. Smol – Biology
- L. S. Stavrianos – History
- Alastair M. Taylor – Georgraphy, Political studies
- David J. Thomson – Mathematics
- Helen Tiffin – English
- Jennie Kidd Trout – Medicine
- Craig Walker – Drama
- Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics
- Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
- Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy
- Gerald Bull – long-range artillery engineer
Principals
- Rev Thomas Liddell
- Rev John Machar
- Rev James George
- Rev John Cook
- Rev William Leitch
- Rev William Snodgrass
- Rev George Monro Grant
- Rev Daniel Miner Gordon
- Rev Robert Bruce Taylor
- Sir William Hamilton Fyfe
- Robert Charles Wallace
- William Archibald Mackintosh
- James Alexander Corry
- John James Deutsch
- Ronald Lampman Watts
- David Chadwick Smith
- William Claude Leggett
- Karen R. Hitchcock
- Thomas R. Williams
- Daniel Woolf
- Patrick Deane
Chancellors
- Rev John Cook
- Sir Sandford Fleming
- James Douglas
- Sir Edward Beatty
- Sir Robert Laird Borden
- James Armstrong Richardson
- Charles Avery Dunning
- John Bertram Stirling
- Roland Michener
- Agnes Mccausland Benidickson
- Peter Lougheed
- A. Charles Baillie
- David A. Dodge
- James Leech
Rectors
- Rev S. W. Dyde
- James L. Robertson
- Brigadier General A. E. Ross
- William H. Coverdale
- Oscar D. Skelton
- R. B. Bennett
- Norman McLeod Rogers
- The Earl of Athlone
- BK Sandwell
- Leonard W. Brockington
- M. Grattan O'Leary
- Richard Alan Broadbent
- Gary Michael Gannage
- Bruce W. Trotter
- Morris Chochla
- Hugh Christie
- Jeremy Freedman
- James Harris
- Richard Powers
- Kelley McKinnon
- Charis Kelso
- Antoinette Mongillo
- David Baar
- Peter Gallant
- Ian Michael
- Michael Kealy
- Daniel Sahl
- Ahmed "KC" Kayssi
- Grant R.A. Bishop
- Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla
- Leora Jackson
- Nick Day
- Nick Francis
- Mike Young
- Cameron Yung
- Alexandra da Silva